Jordan - Tuesday 27th May - Petra part 2

After leaving you on a cliff hanger at the end of part 1, we have arrived at the Treasury building. 

AKA-Al-Khazna

Pity that the light is in the wrong spot for photos, but you can't always time these things. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khazneh

 Below, here is another sweaty hat hair photo.

 And another group photo from Mo.

 But there is a lot more the further you walk into Petra.

 Then there is the coloured stone.

 This below is the street of facades.

More of the coloured stone and another Mo photo of us.

 Then we split up, most of the group went on an uphill  trek to see the Royal Tombs. I thought that would be a bit much for my dodgy hip so myself and one of the blokes in the group went for a cup of mint tea, with our policeman.

Graham took the camera so these are his photos. 

 

Mo pointing out the sights.

 

 

That is were I was in that building below. Nice cup of tea, just normal black tea with fresh mint leaves, very nice. As soon as I sat down there was a ginger cat on my lap!

 

Now I'm back with the group and we venture even further down the hill.

 There are some Temple ruins and Mo took a photo of a lizard..

 

 Some gumtrees at the bottom of the hill.

You can continue on from here to the monastery, but that was another several kms.

 Then we made our way back up the hill. It was hotter now. We made it halfway back to the treasury building then took a golf cart for the final part . The cheeky driver played the Indiana Jones theme music and we were leaving the treasury which was hilarious. (I'll have to watch the movie again now).

Here is a still from the 1989 film.

John Ryhs-Davies, Sean Connery and Harrison Ford, the very last scene, before they rode up the chasm and into the sunset. We did it by golf cart with the same music!

 

You can watch it on youtube!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGN0LuEXBYY

 

Then we had a free afternoon,  we visited the Petra Museum.

Then it was dinner at our own expense, and we visited the Cave Bar across the road from our hotel. 

 

We found some of our fellow tour mates already there so we joined them for dinner.

It was once a tomb 

 

 

I seemed to have managed to restyle my hair to get rid of the hat hair. 

 Second ginger cat for the day!

Phew so that's the end of that epic two part post, last tour day tomorrow and then its time to head home.